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Discover the new Amazon Echo Dot full specifications, its use, enhanced capabilities and surprisingly, tied up with your everyday apps. It is slimmer, shinier and better than the first generation Echo Dot.

Echo Dot (2nd Generation) is a screen and hands-free, a voice-controlled gadget that utilizes Alexa to play music, control smart home devices, supply details, read the news, set alarms, and more.

It connects to speakers or headphones through Bluetooth or stereo cable television which is 3.5 mm to access music from iHeartRadio, Spotify, TuneIn, Pandora, and its own Amazon Music. The Dot joins the Alexa to deliver information, weather condition, news, sports ratings, play music more quickly.

Echo Dot is a voice control, hands-free for playing any types of Music. Ask Alexa to play your favorite Artist, Music type, Category or any tune at all. Amazon Music Unlimited can play everything under the sun.

Wondering if Alexa can hear you from across the room with Music on? The answer is YES because it uses hands-free long-range microphones so even in a noisy environment, Alexa can still hear you. If you have multiple Dots in your House and wondering if they will all answer you at the same time, don't worry as Alexa is a program to answer you based on which you are in closest proximity with. Thanks to its Echo Spatial Perception, Alexa is intelligent enough.

The Dot is also a smart alarm clock with its unique built-in speaker, effective in waking you up and as a kitchen assistant timer too. Anywhere you may want a voice-controlled computer.

Echo Dot is continuously getting better and smarter, upgrading new updates and features to keep you updated in the latest Trends. It combined skills smart enough to order you aPizza at Domino's, or get you a car at Uber and more. Alexa is the main brain system of the Echo Dot and is in Cloud, so it is always installing updates. It can build a connection and memorize your vocabularies, your voice patterns, and preference.

It is starting its journey into the future with smart home automation collaboration. Using Alexa to controls thermostats, garage doors, sprinklers, lights, fans, switches, and more with gadgets from SmartThings, Ecobee, Philips Hue, Samsung, Nest, WeMo, and others are now possible. Just in the last couple of months, Amazon Inc. included countless brand-new abilities from third-party developers. Read more about the newest tied up with Control4.

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There are some minor details about my case that I'm not too happy about. Mainly the fact that although there is a slot in the case for the head phone jack to be found, the slot in the case and the headphone jack are not at all aligned. It's a minor inconvenience, but something to consider when looking at cases. Make sure your charger can fit properly into the charging slot as well. I've experienced needing to remove a phone case every time the phone was charging due to this lack of attention to detail by the manufacturer. The same thing goes for the lens of the camera built into the phone. If the case covers it, you will have to remove the case every time you want to take a picture. If you don't take many pictures then this won't bother you, but for Instagram and SnapChat users this can be extremely annoying.

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